Editing A Modest Proposal (section)

==Modern usage==
''[[A Modest Video Game Proposal]]'' is the title of an open letter sent by activist/former attorney [[Jack Thompson (activist)|Jack Thompson]] on 10 October 2005.<ref name="Saunderson">{{cite web|last=Saunderson|first=Matt|date=October 10, 2005|title=Attorney Proposes Violent Game|url=http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051030003500/http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883|archive-date=2005-10-30|work=GameCube Advanced|publisher=Advanced Media Network}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Gibson|first=Ellie|date=2005-10-18|title=Thompson refuses to make $10k donation to charity|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news181005thompsonrefuses|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Eurogamer|language=en}}</ref>

The 2012 horror film [[Butcher Boys (2012 film)|''Butcher Boys'']], written by the original ''[[The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' scribe [[Kim Henkel]], is said to be an updating of Jonathan Swift's ''A Modest Proposal''. Henkel imagined the descendants of folks who actually took Swift up on his proposal.<ref>{{cite news|title=A 'Texas Chain Saw' Pedigree|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2013-10-08/a-texas-chain-saw-pedigree/|website=www.austinchronicle.com |last=O'Connell |first=Joe}}</ref> The film opens with a quote from J. Swift.<ref>{{cite web|title=Exclusive: Kim Henkel Talks Butcher Boys|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/47860/exclusive-kim-henkel-talks-butcher-boys/|website=www.dreadcentral.com |last=Barton |first=Steve|date=6 September 2013}}</ref>

The 2023 song "[[Eat Your Young]]" written by Irish musician [[Hozier (musician)|Hozier]] might be a reference to "A Modest Proposal".<ref>{{cite news|title=Hozier rises from his slumber with "Eat Your Young"|url=https://berkeleybeacon.com/hozier-rises-from-his-slumber-with-eat-your-young/|work=The Berkeley Beacon |last=Choi | first=Rachel |date=March 22, 2023}}</ref> It combines themes regarding the anti-war and anti-income-inequality movement, and uses Swift's essay as a framework to compare those modern problems to those same problems during Swift's time.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

The July 2023 [[Channel 4]] mockumentary ''[[Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat]]'', written by British comedy writer Matt Edmonds,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4889856/ |title=Matthew Edmonds |website=IMDb.com |access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> updates ''A Modest Proposal'' and presents it in a similar format to Wallace's ''[[Inside the Factory]]'', with human meat given as a potential solution to the [[2021–present_United_Kingdom_cost-of-living_crisis|UK's cost of living crisis]]. The words "a modest proposal" are used in Wallace's summing up at the end of the programme, and Swift is credited.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/26/british-miracle-meat-story-behind-one-best-hoaxes-tv-history |title=The British Miracle Meat: the story behind one of the best TV hoaxes in history |first=Steve |last=Rose|date=26 July 2023 |work=The Guardian }}</ref>